Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) handed out new committee positions to a slew of incoming Democratic senators and incumbent lawmakers in the upper chamber.  On Thursday, a number of incoming Democratic freshman lawmakers, including Sen.-elects Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Andy Kim (D-NJ), and Lisa Rochester (D-DE), […]

Top Republicans are calling for a swift confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s national security nominees following a New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people. Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), Trump’s incoming national security adviser, argued that the attack underscores how critical it is for the new national security team […]

President Joe Biden said there is no evidence “as of now” of any connection between the terrorist attack on New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans and the truck explosion outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas. Biden delivered the brief update Thursday on the investigations into Wednesday’s terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in Louisiana […]

EXCLUSIVE — The State Department has crafted plans to distribute staffers from a shuttered office accused of censoring conservatives to a new internal “hub” that will coordinate its activities, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner. The Global Engagement Center, the office that Republicans accused of working with groups aiming to demonetize right-leaning media outlets in the United States, shut […]